Mike Toreno

Michael "Mike" Toreno was a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operative who fought against communism in Latin America and against drugs in California during the 1980s and 1990s. Toreno often worked undercover, posing as the head of the Loco Syndicate of San Francisco by 1992, but he always had people watching him; he was watched by one DEA agent, one FBI agent, a Russian spy, a Cuban double agent, and his CIA paymasters at all times.

Biography
Mike Toreno worked for the United States' Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) during the Cold War, and he was involved in espionage, black ops, and counter-intelligence, and he was involved with the fight against the Eastern Bloc in Latin America and the Middle East. Toreno made enemies with rival agencies, and he fought against them as often as he did against foreign threats, leading to him being watched by several agents at every turn. In 1992, he was sent on a mission to lead the Loco Syndicate of San Francisco while posing as a drug trafficker, and he formed a partnership with pimp Jizzy B and with Rifa boss T-Bone Mendez. He was deep undercover, having a mysterious background, and he was believed to have been killed when Carl Johnson shot his helicopter down during his quest to destroy the Loco Syndicate.

Working with Carl Johnson
However, Toreno survived the helicopter crash (it is not certain that he was even on board the helicopter), and he had CJ come to his ranch in the Nevada desert, with CJ being unaware of who he was. Toreno gave him several tasks in exchange for working to secure his brother Sweet Johnson's release from prison, and he had him learn how to fly in order to drop munitions for his men. He also had CJ destroy a rival agency's cargo plane before it could carry supplies to Middle Eastern dictators, and Toreno kept CJ under his thumb for a while. He would release CJ's brother after CJ destroyed a flotilla of spy ships with a military jet stolen from USS Nimitz in San Francisco Bay, and Toreno cut off all contact with CJ afterwards.